Cooke aiming to preserve ingredients
The News Review:
- Cooke aiming to preserve ingredients
- AIDS in Africa–a Betrayal
- Equity Growth Fuels Fix-Ups
- Test results negative on mad cow case: CFIA
- PCCW sinks as sale’s pitch fails to add up
Cooke aiming to preserve ingredients
Times Online – Jan 22, 2005
” Simply raking out England’s top 12 clubs does not necessarily answer the problem, it merely transfers it to the next tier down and the fact remains that no club, whatever their status, want to turn down an appearance at Twickenham. Cooke, meanwhile, will be involved in further discussions next week with Francis Baron, the RFU chief executive, over the future structure of the domestic game. This week, one of the sport’s leading administrators expressed the view that the climate regarding promotion and relegation had changed in the past two years and certainly there is an acknowledgement of the need to protect the substantial investment made in the Premiership, alongside the need to promote home-grown talent rather than calling in overseas players to avoid relegation. But Cooke insists that there cannot be a “no-risk business” for the Premiership and that even a two-leg play-off system — for many the best alternative to straightforward promotion of the National League One’s champion club — is not the answer. “There has to be a pathway, but there is room for negotiation,” Cooke said. “Maybe staged promotion and relegation, over a two or three-year period, is the answer. Some of our clubs recognise that they will probably never make the Premiership, but if there are those who believe they have the structure and can attract the investment and the players, then why should they not have their opportunity?” Andrew Dalgleish, Oxford University’s hooker in their win over Cambridge last month, will lead the English Universities against the touring Australian Universities at Clifton tomorrow.
AIDS in Africa–a Betrayal
Weekly Standard – The Weekly Standard – Jan 22, 2005
Yet the “experts” in the field didn’t want to hear. Our secret was that the country that had best succeeded in curbing the spread of HIV–Uganda–had achieved this result without following the formula the experts had been pushing for over 20 years, namely, condoms, drugs, and testing. Instead, Uganda had achieved its unparalleled decline in the prevalence of HIV with a home-grown, low-cost program built around something offensive to conventional experts: promotion of sexual abstinence and fidelity, with condoms promoted only quietly, to high-risk groups and those already infected. The figures are startling. Through a public-information campaign backed by local medical personnel, pastors, and imams and reinforced in schools, Uganda reduced its HIV rate from 15 percent to 4 percent between 1991 and 2004, according to a U.
Equity Growth Fuels Fix-Ups
Washington Post – Jan 22, 2005
HarneySaturday, January 22, 2005; Page F01 The equity Americans own in their homes has grown by a mind-blowing $5 trillion since 1995, thanks to a 70 percent average jump in the values of those houses. Guess what they have been doing with that wealth? Right: Buying cars, buying vacation property, paying kids’ tuitions, taking overseas vacations. _____Real Estate_____•…
Those improvements usually help pump up home values even more. Rather than the modest fix-up and do-it-yourself remodeling typical of decades past, owners are focusing on high-end kitchen transformations, multi-room additions, lavish bathrooms, spas, entertainment rooms and other upscale renovations. Baby boomer homeowners — those born between 1946 and 1964 — are especially prone to think and spend big. Six in 10 of them completed a home renovation project in 2003, and they spent a prodigious $72 billion feathering their nests.
Test results negative on mad cow case: CFIA
CTV.ca – Jan 22, 2005
Japan is also signalling it may soon resume imports. Officials agreed this week to speed up scientific collaboration with Canada. Cattle farmers have lost an estimated $5 billion Cdn since the first home-grown case of mad cow disease was found in May 2003. With files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press User Tools.
PCCW sinks as sale’s pitch fails to add up
The Standard – Jan 22, 2005
6 percent on Friday amid widespread investor doubts that its new tie-up with China Netcom will do much to rescue the company’s flagging fortunes. Though chairman Richard Li predicted a 25 percent rise in the company’s revenues over the next two years, analysts had a tough time figuring out how the purchase of a 20 percent stake by the mainland’s biggest fixed-line operator will do much to offset the company’s home-grown woes. “Li’s plans will not help PCCW’s problems in the short term,” said BNP Paribas senior analyst Marvin Lo, who kept his “underperform” rating on the stock, with a 12-month target price of HK$3. The company’s shares closed at HK$4.